Joel Levine has a
special knack for winning the Victor Palciauskas tournaments. The
Commack, New York Master has now claimed his third Palciauskas adding to his
2008 and 2011 victories.
GAME OF THE MONTH

Joel Levine demonstrates his classical approach
to chess by this little gem which features central play on both sides and then
when White conquers the center, a quick and fatal switch to the kingside. All
this with minimal cooperation from his opponent, James Chessing.

Pertti Lehikoinen estimates that the
14 games he played during the Finals of the 20th World
Championship consumed 14,700 to 14,800 hours. Roughly half of the
thinking time he used in analyzing with computers and the other half was done
in the traditional way manually at the chessboard or blindfold.
LEARN CHESS BY MAIL ! Lessons given
by mail, telephone, ICC - many different ways. I specialize in
players rated 800-2100 who would like to improve their game. Contact
me for information. Alex Dunne, 324 West Lockhart St., Sayre, PA
18840 or [email protected]

is now available at McFarland Publishers and
Amazon for $45.00 and also Kindle at $16.49

NEW! 2006 Electronic Knights
Championship ebook. 190 games some annotated, all the crosstables,
bios of the top three, list of all the finalists, ChessBase format, .pgn
notation and Microsoft .pdf format. $4.00 postage
paid for the disk, $2.00 sent to you via email. Hard copy $10 postage included.
TOP 25 RATED CORRESPONDENCE PLAYERS

The top 25 US Correspondence players come from a
diverse variety of states with NY and CA leading the pack with four each and
Texas and Ohio wit two.

1

Buss, Michael

IN

2431

2

Ingersol, Harry

IA

2422

3

Tseng, Wilbur

IL

2416

4

Tracz, James

OH

2407

5

Woodard, Daniel

NV

2394

6

Kain, Anthony

SC

2392

7

Adams, Gary

AZ

2390

8

Torres, Chris

CA

2378

9

Fass, Robert

NY

2370

10

Levine, Joel

NY

2365

11

Bonsack, Laurence

CA

2362

12

Sogin, David

KY

2356

13

Miettinen, Kristo

NY

2341

14

Rodriguez, Keith

FL

2340

15

Daves, Dana

NC

2336

16

Magat, Gordon

NY

2325

17

Boege, Harold

MN

2317

18

Vaughan, James

OH

2310

19

Mcgregor, Stephen

TX

2305

20

Langland, Thomas

CA

2304

21

Horwitz, Danny

TX

2303

22

Funston, David

CA

2297

23

Ryan, Patrick

NJ

2294

24

Addis, Edward

OR

2280

25

Corkum, Tim

WI

2277

Here is a gritty
struggle well conducted by both sides.

RUY LOPEZ (C68)

This is an exciting game
with tactical shots that only temporarily interrupt the positional flow of the
game.
ENGLISH OPENING
(A11)

White engineers a
thematic attack on the Black King with a devastating exchange sacrifice on d5.
CARO-KANN DEFENSE (B12)

The "French
Attack" proves it's worth 500 rating points and a half point on the
crosstable.
FRENCH DEFENSE (C18)